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🗓️ 27 May 2024
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Fr. Mike explains the purpose behind the beauty and extravagance of the Temple Solomon built for the Lord. On the other hand, he also points out the issue with the image of power and strength Solomon is trying to portray by gathering so much wealth as King. Today's readings are 1 Kings 6, 2 Chronicles 9, and Psalm 4.
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0:00.0 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year |
0:06.7 | podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. |
0:10.7 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by |
0:12.7 | Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from |
0:16.1 | Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into |
0:20.1 | that story today. it is day 148. |
0:22.6 | We're reading from First Kings chapter 6, |
0:24.6 | Second Chronicles chapter 9, |
0:26.0 | and we are praying Psalm 4, going all the way back |
0:28.5 | to the beginning of the book of Psalms. |
0:30.0 | As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from |
0:32.0 | is the revised standard version the second catholic edition |
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0:47.2 | listening to this Bible today. One thing to keep in mind is the fact that today we are going in First Kings we're going to look at King |
0:55.5 | Solomon building the temple and there's a lot of dimensions a lot of cubits involved in this and so if you want to have |
1:01.8 | kind of a little more accurate sense of like how to |
1:04.2 | picture this if you aren't anywhere near a computer it might be helpful for you to |
1:08.1 | pull up something like King Solomon's Temple or dimensions of King Solomon's |
1:11.5 | temple they might and it would probably give you some images |
1:13.8 | people have recreated that would say, |
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